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Chairs
Maryna Chernyavska, Kule Folklore Centre, University of
Alberta
Emese Ilyefalvi, Department of Folkloristics, Etövös Loránd University (Budapest)
Body, Affects, Senses, and
Emotions
Chair
Prof. Jonas Frykman, Department of Art and Cultural Sciences, University of Lund, Sweden
Cultural Heritage and Property
Chair
Robert Baron, Goucher College, United States of America
Carley Williams, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Cultural Perspectives on Education and Learning
Chairs
Maria Zackariasson, professor in Ethnology, Södertörn University, Sweden
Erika Lundell, lecturer in Ethnology, Malmö University, Sweden
Digital Ethnology and Folklore
Chairs
Coppélie Cocq, University Helsinki, FI / Umea University, Sweden
Andrew Peck, Miami University, US
Ethnology of Religion
Chair
Alessandro Testa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czechia
Victoria Hegner, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore
Chairs
Chair - JoAnn Conrad: Diablo Valley College, History.
Co-chair - Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir: University of Iceland, Ethnology and Folklore.
Food Research
Chairs
Chair - Håkan Jönsson (hakan.jonsson(at)food.lth.se), Lund University, Sweden
Co-chair - Tanja Kocković Zaborski (tanjakzaborski(at)gmail.com) Ethnographic Museum Zagreb
Secretary - Daša Ličen (dasa.licen(at)gmail.com) Institute of Slovenian Ethnology
Francophone Working Group
Chair
Dr. Laurent Sébastien Fournier,
Department of Anthropology, Aix-Marseille-University, France
Email: franconetwork(at)siefhome.org
Historical Approaches in
Cultural Analysis
Chairs
Hande Birkalan-Gedik (Goethe University)
Gabriele Orlandi (IDEMEC - Aix-Marseille Université)
Working Group on Migration and
Mobility
Chairs
Ignacio Fradejas-García, University of Iceland
Helena Pettersson, Umea University
Museums and Material Culture
Chairs
Prof. Dr. Hester Dibbits, lector of cultural heritage and course director of the Master of Museology at Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and endowed professor historical culture and education at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dr. Lizette Gradén, Associate professor of Ethnology, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University; Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington
Uta Karrer, Fränkisches Museum Feuchtwangen, Germany
Narrative Cultures
Chairs
Helmut Groschwitz (chair, contact person), Institut für Volkskunde (Institute for European Ethnology), Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Petr Janeček (chair), Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Place Wisdom
Chairs
Adjunct Prof. Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti, University of Eastern Finland
Cáit McCullagh, PhD Candidate at the Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University; the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, and Shetland Museum and Archives
The Ritual Year
Chairs
Emily Lyle, Honorary Chair, Honorary Fellow of The University of Edinburgh
Irina Sedakova, Chair (Russia), Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Laurent Fournier, Chair (France), Department of Anthropology, Aix-Marseille-University
Space-lore and Place-lore
Chairs
Karolína Pauknerová PhD, Co-Chair, Centre for Theorethical Study, Charles University Prague
László Mód, Co-Chair, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Szeged
Young Scholars Working Group
Chairs
László Koppány Csáji, Co-Chair, University of Pécs, Hungary
Gunnar Óli Dagmararson, Co-Chair, University of Iceland
Ana Svetel, Co-Chair, University of Ljubljana
Zuzana Terry, Co-Chair